Being #editor of a #literary #journal listed on the @duotrope.com ranking of the "25 Fastest Fiction Publishers" is like a singer-songwriter having a song on the #Billboard Hot 100 music chart. @doricliterary.bsky.social debuted at #11. MY HUMBLE LITTLE JOURNAL IS NOW #5!! doric-literary.com

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to. Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more. This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This exchange says it all.

Why isn’t THIS the front page story right now? Net migration to the UK halved from 2023 to 2024 (Government data shared by The Guardian). There is no problem with migration in the UK, it is fiction whipped up by the press. BBC News should be the one presenting these facts.

This is a wonderful story. These women could be characters in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Hurry, hurry!

Philp Larkin reluctantly agreed to do an interview with The Paris Review but only by post. It took him five months to answer the first set of questions. "It has taken rather a long time because, to my surprise, I found writing it suffocatingly boring."

‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gambling companies are making billions in profit while outdated tax rules let them off the hook. A fairer tax could raise £3 billion - enough to scrap the cruel two-child limit and directly lift 500,000 children out of poverty overnight.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Has your school signed up for this? 🤩 www.facebook.com/SignatureDea...

And that submission link is... smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

@ hive mind. Can anyone identify this? Found while clearing out my 94 yr old mother's house a while ago. Kept it because it intrigued me, but I still have no clue what it might be. Says 'Electrolux' & 'Made in England'. Unlabelled gradations marked on the glass. See alt text for details.

Ruby Silvious, contemporary artist who utilises the teabag as her canvas #womensart #SundayMorning

#Caturday Cats that sailed on ships to catch rodents once had passports signed with their paw prints. (Thanks Messy Nessy)

Don't miss tonight's celestial show...🌕🪐 The Corn Moon, our last full moon of summer, will rise in total lunar eclipse...glowing deep red as a Blood Moon. Catch it climbing the horizon from 19:30, with Saturn shining close by, shining brighter than usual.

Random joys 🐛

Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

@summermoth.bsky.social 😃

“Farage has given two contradictory versions – one that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second one is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign.” – @goodlawproject.org https://bit.ly/4m81Zzt

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders. 🖼️ 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🧑‍🎨 🧑‍🎨 📕 buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

Meta’s Threads have mysteriously banned @writershq.bsky.social on the first day of its Writing As Resistance Festival 🤔 From today ft. Leone Ross, LS Nguyen, Beth Daley, Tunji Offeyi, Sage Tyrtle, Sarah Lewis, Jude Potts, Marcella Rick, Mara Livermore, Lydia Wilkins, Mathew Gostelow & Kathy Hoyle👇

Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

I’m honored to be judging the Fall Flash Fiction Contest at the fabulous @thesunlightpress.bsky.social! There are super generous cash prizes (the winner receives $600, second place winner $250, and third place winner $150). Link with info below. I can’t wait to read your work! ☀️

Final days! 🌊 20% off all Salt books until 31 Aug. Shop now 👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Code: CWS6ED0C7KCX

ICYMI: Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again” 👇 #BookSky

Previously published or unpublished, fiction or nonfiction (or anything in between), 250 words or fewer, deadline Nov 15. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The Secret Language of Trees: A Charming Animated Lesson Explains How Trees Share Information with Each Other

Lovers of books, cruisers of shelves, sniffers of hardbacks, my books tv show is back on telly tonight. Join me John Niven, Desiree Burch and Hallie Rubenhold on the Big Scottish Book Club. 1030pm. A joyful bastion of civilised chat. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Rafael Behr tells it like it is 👏https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-brexit-truth

Highly impressed by this so far. Stories that seem to effortlessly bring together relationship dynamics, 20th century Japanese history, and just the right amount of esoteric detail. Recommended for those who write, study and teach short stories. I have only the title story/novella left to read.

We need a rethink on ebooks, if it's not already too late. They're being used to train large AI models without permission and in this case, to issue counterfeit goods in an established author's name.

The shift is happening - I guess we just need to keep sharing real data like this to reassure investors at a time when US politicians are corrupt and actively harming renewable investment with lies to protect fossil fuel companies

I love Bernadette Mayer's list of writing experiments & try them sometimes. Most recently, I created a story where I "systematically deranged the language," filling it with gerunds and passive verbs. I love the result, but I don't know that an editor would. www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

August Spec Flash Roundup! With @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @naturefutures.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @escapepod.org @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com 1/3

Add your name to the petition: 38d.gs/GPApp_OL_BSK...

Moomins are having a moment online. Cuteness is surely a driving factor—but so, too, is the sense that they offer an escape from the many anxieties of modern life.

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

Good morning. In a couple of months it will be 20 years since we incorporated Bluemoose Books as a limited company. And yesterday we got some news that will blow your mind. Thank you to all the readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers. @thebookseller.com

HAPPY 5 YEARS, OVID NOT COVID! 🎉 This week it's 5 years since I finished my first series of classics videos. To celebrate, we've put them on YouTube! Fill your boots. Now I've got a YouTube channel, who knows what else might go on there - subscribe to find out... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The politicians, news outlets, and commentators linking migration to ‘rising’ crime rates is fuelling something much more dangerous than ‘legitimate concerns’, writes Adam Bienkov

New episode up now. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, with guest Paul March-Russell in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/246...